Title The origins and onset of the Romanian Holocaust / Henry Eaton

Published Detroit, Michigan : Wayne State University Press, [2013] ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 192 pages) : illustrations Contents Introduction -- Iaşi -- Unification and the Jewish Question -- Romanian Jews -- Fascism and Antisemitism in the 1930s -- The Rumble of Violence -- War and Mass Execution at Stânca Rosnovanu -- Duminica ceea (That Sunday) -- Trenurile mortuare (The Death Trains) -- Victims -- Perpetrators -- The German Connection -- Conclusion Summary The first mass killings of the Romanian Holocaust in late June to early July 1941 brutally claimed thousands of victims and marked the beginning of the government's plan to "cleanse the land" of Jews. Moreover, of all the Third Reich's allies, only Romania undertook its genocide campaign without the intervention of Himmler's SS. In this book, the author traces the historical path to this tragedy by examining both Romania's antisemitic history and looking at the initial mass killings in detail. First, the author traces the roots of the Romanian government's decision to exterminate Jews in Romania and in its annexed areas through its long and often violent antisemitic past. While the decision to target the Jews might have been ordered by dictator Ion Antonescu and his top civil and military officials, the author argues that it found its basis in an entrenched cultural abuse of Jews dating back to the nineteenth century. In the second section, the author analyzes the Romanian government's first killing operations: the execution of 311 Jewish men, women, and children at Stânca Rosnovanu by men of the Romanian 6th Cavalry Regiment; the great pogrom in the city of Iaşi triggered by agents of the government's intelligence service; and the two "death trains" in which some 2,700 pogrom survivors perished in freight cars turned into ovens by the summer heat. In the final chapters, the author examines the victims and perpetrators in detail and addresses the possible German connections to the killings. This book persuasively challenges the idea that Romania's adoption of murder as state policy was due to outside pressure. This history will be illuminating reading for Holocaust studies scholars and readers interested in World War II history Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 157-177) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Jews -- Persecutions -- Romania. Jews -- Romania -- Iași -- History -- 20th century Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) -- Romania Antisemitism -- Romania -- History -- 20th century HISTORY -- Europe -- Western. Antisemitism Ethnic relations Jews Jews -- Persecutions Regions & Countries - Asia & the Middle East. History & Archaeology. Middle East. SUBJECT Romania -- Ethnic relations Subject Romania Romania -- Iași Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2012040558 ISBN 9780814338568 0814338569

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